Ealing, Prescience form Ealing Metro
Ealing Studios and leading film financier Prescience (The King's Speech [+see also:
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The new joint venture will have a varied slate that will be unveiled prior to Cannes. Will Machin (Ealing Studios International, ThinkFilm, LolaFilms, Capitol Films), has been appointed Head of Ealing Metro, reporting to Tim Smith and James Spring, joint CEOs of Ealing Metro.
Machin’s sales team will include Natalie Brenner (Ealing Studios International, Element X, Film 4, J&M) and James Scott (Metropolis).
Barnaby Thompson, Head of Ealing Studios and Paul Brett, Director and Head of Production of Prescience will serve on the board of Ealing Metro alongside Spring and Smith.
Machin said, “The combined resources of our parent companies allows us to produce, finance and sell films of the highest quality giving us a unique advantage in the international film community.”
Smith said, “We have enjoyed an increasingly close working relationship with Ealing Studios over the production and worldwide distribution of five films in five years. Today we intend to build on those rock solid foundations with a series of exciting, prestigious and, most importantly, commercial films.”
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